题名

The Complication of Cyber Manhunt: How Cyber Manhunt Further Complicated the Ethical Conflict between Breaching the Confidentiality and Endangering the Society in Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic

DOI

10.6145/jme.202303_27(1).0009

作者

Yen-Chang Chen；Yen-Yuan Chen

关键词

Internet ； cyber manhunt ； help-seek ； literacy ； medical decision-making

期刊名称

Journal of Medical Education

卷期/出版年月

27卷1期（2023 / 03 / 01）

页次

88 - 96

内容语文

英文
中文摘要

While health care and public health workers are working on measures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an unprecedentedly large number of people spending much more time indoors, and relying heavily on the Internet as their lifeline. What has been overlooked is the influence of the increasing online activities on public health issues. In this article, we pointed out how a large-scale online activity called cyber manhunt may threaten to offset the efficacy of contact tracing investigation, a public health intervention considered highly effective in limiting further transmission in the early stage of a highly contagious disease outbreak such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first section, we presented a case to show how personal information obtained from contact investigation and disclosed in part on the media provoked a vehement cyber manhunt. We then discussed the possible reasons why netizens collaborate to reveal anonymized personal information about contact investigation, and specify, from the perspective of public health and public health ethics, four problems of cyber manhunt, including the lack of legitimate public health goals, the concerns about privacy breach, the impact of misinformation, and social inequality. Based on our analysis, we concluded that more moral weight may be given to protecting one's confidentiality, especially in an era with the rapid advance of digital and information technologies.
主题分类 醫藥衛生 > 醫藥總論
社會科學 > 教育學
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